Earth and Environmental Engineering

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• Professional Experience
  • Professor of Professional Practice, Columbia University, 2020-present
  • Senior Research Fellow, Solvay (Cytec Industries), 2010-2020
  • Research Fellow, Kemira, 2006-2010
  • Research Fellow, Cytec Industries (American Cyanamid), 1981-2006
  • Coastal Engineer, Nearshore Environment Research Center (Tokyo, Japan), 1980
  • Chemist, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, 1979-1980
  • Postdoc, University of California – Berkeley, 1976-1978
     
• Professional Affiliations
  • Co-Founder and Organizing Committee Member of International Symposium on Polyelectrolytes (1993-present)
  • American Chemical Society (Colloid & Polymer Divisions); Session organizer for 1991, 1993, 1996, 2003
  • Co-chair for 13th ICSCS and 83rd Colloid and Surface Science Symposium (Columbia University) 2009
  • Ion-Containing Polymers Gordon Conferences: 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001 (chair), 2003 (session chair)
  • Intertech Conference on Coagulants and Flocculants Chairman 2005
  • Editorial Boards: Encyclopedia of Colloid and Surface Science (current) and Langmuir (past)
  • Frequent reviewer for: Minerals Engineering, Minerals, International Journal of Mineral Processing, Colloids and Surfaces A
  • American Physical Society (Society of Rheology)
  • IACIS (International Association of Colloid and Interface Scientists)
  • SME (Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration)
  • Sigma Xi
  • United States Aikido Federation; member Board of Directors
     
• Honors & Awards
  • Solvay Fellow, 2016 – 2020
  • Shihan and 7th dan in Aikido, 2013
  • US Aikido Federation Board of Directors, 2017
  • Cytec Industries Circle of Excellence Award, 2005
  • NSF NATO ASI Fellowship, 1975
• Education
  • Postdoc, Biophysics, University of California - Berkeley
  • PhD, Physical Chemistry, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
  • BS, Chemistry, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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• Professional Affiliations
  • Professor, Columbia University, 2022 - Current
  • Department of Chemical Engineering
  • Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center
  • Independent Director, FREYR Battery, 2022 - Current
  • Chief Scientist, Electra, 2021 - 2022
  • Associate Professor, Columbia University, 2019 - 2022
  • Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering
  • Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center
  • Associate Professor, Princeton University, 2017 - 2019
  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
  • Co Founder, Feasible, 2015 - 2022
  • Associated Faculty, Princeton University, 2018 - 2019
  • Department of Chemistry
  • Associated Faculty, Princeton University, 2016 - 2019
  • Assistant Professor, Princeton University, 2013 - 2017
  • Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
  • Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment
  • Assistant Professor, City College of the City University of New York, 2009 - 2013
  • Senior Applications Engineer, Sentilla Corporation, 2008 - 2008
  • Co Founder, WIT, 2006 - 2008
• Honors & Awards
  • Stanley Thompson Professor in Chemical Metallurgy, Columbia University (2019)
  • Best Tweet, Princeton University (2018)
  • National Academy of Engineering Japan-USA Frontiers of Engineering Speaker (2016)
  • National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Organizer (2014)
  • National Academy of Engineering Frontiers of Engineering Invitee (2013)
  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission Young Investigator Award (2012)
  • Xerox University Affairs Committee Award (2012)
  • Best Poster US-Korea Nanotechnology Conference (2012)
  • International Solid-State Circuits Conference Design Award for Picocube (2008)
  • Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Summer Fellow (2005)
  • National Science Foundation East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes Fellow (2005)
  • Cubicciotti Student Award - Electrochemical Society (2005)
  • Intel Robert Noyce Graduate Fellowship (2003)
  • University of California, Berkeley Haas School of Business Management of Technology Fellowship
  • (2002)
  • University of California, Berkeley Materials Science and Engineering Jane Lewis Student Graduate
  • Fellowship (2000)
• Education
  • PhD, Materials Science and Engineering, UC Berkeley
  • ScB, Engineering, Brown University

Additional Information

• Professional Affiliations
  • American Geophysical Union (AGU)
  • Interpore - International Society for Porous Media
  • American Chemical Society (ACS), Energy & Fuels Division
  • Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA)
• Honors & Awards
  • Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award (DFTA), Columbia Engineering Alumni Association's (CEAA), May 2024.
  • 2024 Medal of Merit for Best Paper Related to Canadian Petroleum Geology, the Canadian Energy Geoscience Association (GEGA), (co-authors/co-awardees: Watt, E. A., Laycock, D. P., Michael, E., Tobin, R. C., Kelly, S., Johnston, M. N).
  • Awardee, Carbontech Development Initiative - New Directions, 2024 (co-PI: Shiho Kawashima).
  • Young Professional Technical Award, Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA), 2023.
  • Awardee, Columbia University Qiu Zhong Wei Research Projects, 2023  (co-PIs: D.R. Nagaraj, Raymond Farinato).
  • Awardee, Columbia University SEAS Interdisciplinary Research Seed (SIRS) Funding, 2023 (co-PIs: Peter Kelemen, Marc Spiegelman).
  • Awardee, American Chemical Society (ACS) Petroleum Research Fund, PRF# 66777-DNI9, July 2023.
  • Awardee, Columbia Climate School Seed Funding, 2023  (co-PI: Peter Kelemen).
  • Awardee, Provost’s Grants Program for Junior Faculty who Contribute to the Diversity Goals of the University, 2023.
  • Nominee, J&J WiSTEM2D program - Engineering Track, 2023.
• Professional Experience
  • Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 2022-
  • Assistant Director, Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy, Columbia University Climate School, 2023-
  • Senior Geoscience Engineer, AquaNRG Consulting Inc. (Houston, TX), 2021-2022
  • Senior Petrophysicist (Geoscience), ConocoPhillips Company (Houston, TX), 2018-2021
  • Petrophysicist (Geoscience), ConocoPhillips Company (Houston, TX), 2016-2018
• Education
  • PhD, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
  • MS, Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
  • BS, Environmental Engineering, University of Florida

• Professional Experience
  • Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, 2018 – 2023
  • NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, US Environmental Protection Agency, NHEERL/AED, Narragansett, RI, 2016 – 2018
  • Postdoctoral Scholar, UC Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology, UC Santa Barbara, 2015 – 2016
• Professional Affiliations
  • American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP)
  • Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO)
• Honors & Awards
  • Agilent Early Career Professor Award (AECPA), 2024
  • C&EN’s 2022 Talented 12 Award, 2022
  • Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization (SNO) Emerging Investigator Award, 2022
  • Hellman Fellowship Award, 2021

• Professional Experience
  • Chair of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2005-2010; 2016–2019
  • Samuel Ruben–Peter G. Viele Professor of Electrochemistry, Columbia University, 2008–
  • Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 2002-
  • Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, 2016-
  • Associate Professor of Chemical Eengineering, Columbia University, 1995–2002
  • Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, 1992–1995
• Professional Affiliations
  • Electrochemical Society (ECS)
  • American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Honors & Awards
  • Fellow, Electrochemical Society, 2016
  • Electrodeposition Research Award, ECS, 2014